Woodmoor Mountain was evacuated for a week during the Hayman Fire in June of 2002 and pre-evacuated in 2012 for the Waldo Canyon fire. An increased awareness of being "fire wise" resulted. A community wide fire mitigation effort was initiated at the Annual Meeting in September 2002. The board applied for, and was awarded a grant from the US Forest service in 2003 to assist in this effort. The grant was awarded in the full amount of $55,000. However, the grant was totally dependent on "matching money", meaning the community had to spend a dollar (either in hard cash or "in kind" labor) in order to receive a dollar. Many homeowners volunteered to provide time and money to help reduce the burden on the Mountain, by cutting dead and diseased trees, helping de-limb and remove the resulting slash, creating defensible spaces around individual homes and working with the Larkspur Fire Protection District, the US Forest Service and the WMHOA Board of Directors to create less hazardous entry/ exit routs to the Mountain. As a result, a total of $26,186 has been received from this grant. Decisions on how to spend the grant funding are made by a 3-person committee. So far, chipping of slash for homeowners has been one way of spending the grant money
